Oracle has stopped officially offering support for Java running on Windows XP. The company signals that at least for the moment, it doesn’t plan to disenfranchise XP users. Oracle signals that it plans to continue to create up-to-date versions of Java 7 for XP users — although for how long remains unclear. Oracle urges anyone who’s still using the operating system to adopt a newer one. 25 percent of all computers still run Windows XP, placing it behind Windows 7 (51 percent) but ahead of Windows 8 and 8.1.”]
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